Volume 7 contains two Russian films with English subtitles. Black Square (1988; 56 min.): a look at the 1950s to the 1970s...
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1987
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Screenwriter
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1986
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On California's Malibu Beach in the late 1960s, young people are enjoying a life with few responsibilities and plenty of...
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Producer
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1968
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An American girl finds love and laughter in the City of Lights in this romantic comedy. Maggie Scott (Ann-Margret) works as...
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1966
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Producer
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1966
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One of Elvis Presley's most popular vehicles, Girl Happy is also one of the most typical. Elvis plays Rusty Wells, the leader...
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1965
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Popular singer Connie Francis stars in this romantic musical-comedy as Libby Caruso, an aspiring young entertainer who yearns...
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1964
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This light romantic comedy finds a young widow with three young boys investigated by the Navy. Amy Martin (Shirley Jones) has...
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1963
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1962
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1962
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Although the talented cast in this uninspired comedy do the best they can with their lines, nothing quite brings The...
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1961
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Producer
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1960
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In this entertaining comedy by Charles Walters, everyone seems to get in on the act, even the dog and especially the four...
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1960
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Viewers know they're in a 1959 comedy film early in the proceedings of Ask Any Girl, when secretary Shirley MacLaine is...
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Producer
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1959
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Vicki Gaye (Cyd Charisse) is a dancer at a night club in early 1930's Chicago. A healthy cynic who still possesses some...
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Producer
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1958
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Dean Martin's first solo film after his split with Jerry Lewis was very nearly his last. Dino plays Ray Hunter, a Conrad...
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Producer
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1957
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A rare comedy effort by director Robert Wise, This Could Be the Night is based on a series of short stories Cordelia Baird...
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Producer
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1957
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The Opposite Sex is an opulent musical remake of Clare Booth Luce's The Women (1939). June Allyson stars in the old Norma...
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Producer
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1956
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A whole slew of guest stars makes Meet Me in Las Vegas a special treat for movie buffs. The central plot concerns wealthy...
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Producer
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1956
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One of the gutsiest movie musicals of the 1950s, Love Me or Leave Me is the true story of 1930s torch-singer Ruth Etting,...
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Producer
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1955
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Hit the Deck is the second film version of the same-named 1927 hit Broadway musical. Though updated for the 1950s, the basic...
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1955
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Producer
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1954
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Filmed on location in Europe, Flame and the Flesh is nothing more nor less than a vehicle for the glamorous Lana Turner. The...
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1954
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Edmund Purdom plays Prince Karl, but Mario Lanza sings the bold tunes coming out of Purdom's mouth, in this MGM remake of the...
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1954
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1953
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1953
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1953
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Golden-throated Mario Lanza stars in Because You're Mine. Lanza plays opera singer Renaldo Rossano, who is drafted into the...
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1952
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Based on an operetta by Franz Lehar, this remake of the 1934 original finds a wealthy widow (Lana Turner) returning to her...
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1952
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Producer
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1952
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Rich, Young and Pretty succinctly describes Jane Powell, the heroine of this frothy MGM musical. Vacationing in Paris with...
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Producer
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1951
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Mickey Rooney returned to his "home" studio MGM, after a three-year absence, in the location-filmed melodrama The Strip....
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Producer
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1951
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The film traces Naples-born Caruso's ascension from adolescent choir singer to the uppermost ranks of the opera world. Caruso...
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Producer
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1951
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This formula Esther Williams musical casts the star as Midwestern carnival swimmer Christine Duncan, in love with bandleader...
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Producer
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1950
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Summer Stock represented Judy Garland's swan song at MGM. Garland plays the owner of a New England farm which entrepreneur...
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1950
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Producer
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1950
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Ann Sothern closed out her MGM contract with the Technicolor musical Nancy Goes to Rio. As Frances Elliot, Sothern is billed...
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1950
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Producer
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1949
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That Midnight Kiss served to introduce the film-going public to MGM's newest singing sensation, Mario Lanza. Just as he did...
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Producer
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1949
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MGM's all-purpose title The Big City was deployed once more for this treacly 1948 drama. To prevent orphaned Midge...
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1948
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Producer
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1948
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Jeanette MacDonald made her first screen appearance in five years in the MGM confection Three Daring Daughters. Looking at...
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Producer
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1948
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In this period musical, Ricardo (Frank Sinatra) is the son of a Mexican innkeeper who has come to California to take over a...
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Producer
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1948
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The title of this MGM musical alone should tip you to the fact that Esther Williams is the star. In this one, she plays a...
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Producer
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1948
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MGM whipped up another musical salad with Luxury Liner, featuring a glittering lineup of contractees including Jane Powell,...
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Producer
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1948
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In this aqueous musical comedy, an opera singer brings his son to Michigan's Mackinac Island where the son falls in love with...
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Producer
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1947
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An aspiring ballerina begins following a prima ballerina hoping that she will become her replacement. Unfortunately, another...
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Producer
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1947
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In this WWII musical, a young hero and his buddy decide to celebrate his receiving the Medal of Honor by partying. He is...
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Producer
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1946
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Too long by at least two reels, Holiday in Mexico is nevertheless one of the more enjoyable MGM Technicolor musicals of the...
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Producer
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1946
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By 1946, MGM's musical output was in the hands of two men: the incisive, progressive Arthur Freed, and the sentimental,...
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Producer
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1946
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This aquatic musical is set at a mountain resort in the beautiful Sierra Nevadas where a heroic Army Air Corpsman has come...
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Producer
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1945
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This mammoth musical is at base the story of two sailors on leave in Hollywood. Brash Joseph Brady (Gene Kelly) has promised...
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Producer
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1945
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This tender but fluffy romantic comedy centers on the romantic travails of a beautiful European princesss who goes to New...
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Producer
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1945
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Two Girls and a Sailor is another of those all-star, no-plot wartime musicals turned out by the bushel basket in the 1940s....
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Producer
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1944
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Musical producer Joe Pasternak moved from Universal to MGM in the early 1940s, taking his pet director Henry Koster (the two...
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Producer
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1944
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Storywise, Thousands Cheer is thin stuff indeed. Insouciant PFC Eddy Marsh (Gene Kelly) wants to put on a Big Show for his...
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Producer
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1943
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Producer
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1943
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One can only imagine the reaction of arch-conservative MGM head Louis B. Mayer when Song of Russia first tumbled over the...
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Producer
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1943
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This MGM musical lifts the premise of Pride and Prejudice and plunks it down into the early 1900s. S.Z. Sakall is a...
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1942
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1941
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A man trying to make his dying father happy makes his love life very complicated indeed in this musical comedy starring...
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Producer
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1941
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Nice Girl? answers its own question by casting the relentlessy nice Deanna Durbin in the title role. In her first truly adult...
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Producer
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1941
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In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman (Deanna Durbin) attends a fair in Austria and buys a card from a...
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Producer
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1940
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In It's a Date, the teenage diva Deanna Durbin is cast as Pamela Drake, the daughter of celebrated stage actress Georgia...
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Producer
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1940
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Set in the South Seas, Seven Sinners stars Marlene Dietrich as a cabaret singer whose reputation as a troublemaker has gotten...
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Producer
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1940
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Teenaged soprano Gloria Jean plays the Little-Miss-Fixit heroine in Universal's Little Bit of Heaven. The most precocious...
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Producer
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1940
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The Under-Pup served to introduce Universal's new preteen songstress--and potential Deanna Durbin replacement--Gloria Jean....
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Producer
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1939
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Tom Destry (James Stewart), son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn't believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object...
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Producer
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1939
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Best remembered as the film in which 17-year-old Deanna Durbin receives her first screen kiss, First Love is a modernized...
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1939
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Producer
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1939
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Andrea Leeds, whose career had shifted into hyperdrive after her brilliant performance in Stage Door (1937), stars in the...
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Producer
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1938
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In this musical romantic comedy of 1938, Deanna Durbin plays Alice Fullerton, a young woman of a "certain age" who is prone...
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1938
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In this musical comedy, a girl with a lively imagination gets in hot water when she tries to make her tall tales real. Gloria...
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Producer
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1938
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The girl is teenaged singing sensation Deanna Durbin; the one hundred men are out-of-work musicians. Still in her "little...
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Producer
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1937
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Deanna Durbin, the teenaged soprano who literally saved Universal Pictures from bankruptcy, made her feature-film debut in...
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1936
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Producer
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1935
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This Hungarian musical comedy (English title: Spring Parade) was produced by Joseph Pasternak, who later remade the picture...
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1934
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Producer
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1932
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Production Manager
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1932
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Harry Piel is both star and director of Bobby Geht Los. The title translates as Bobby Starts Off, which indeed he does -- and...
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Production Manager
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1931
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The plot of this German slapstick comedy can be summed up by its English-language title, The Stork Strikes. The humor is...
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Production Manager, Supervisor/Manager
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1931
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Seitensprunge (Dodging) stars Oskar Sims and Gerda Maurus as a married couple accustomed to taking each other for granted....
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Producer
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1931
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Producer
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1929
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